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WNBL team SEQ Stars in Liquidation

Heal the first coaching product out of the Joyce nepotism tree by way of GC Blaze.


isnt Goriss another joyce product?

A lot of rolled i's reading that interview ;)

Shane Heal interview from Downtown:

http://downtownball.net/2016/02/qa-shane-heal-on-the-seq-stars-that-trip-to-adelaide-and-being-left-out-in-the-cold/

"Basketball Australia has appointed Centre of Excellence Coach Paul Goriss to assist SEQ Stars for the remainder of the 2015/2016 Wattle Valley WNBL season.

Goriss is an experienced coach, having been involved with coaching junior national teams and is currently an Associate Coach at the Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence.

Goriss joins Megan Thompson to support the SEQ Stars in their game tonight in Adelaide vs The Lightning and then on Saturday vs Perth Lynx."

http://wnbl.com.au/goriss-appointed-to-assist-seq-stars/

Is tonight's game going ahead? Given that this stay of execution has only just happened, you'd think the team's usual travel plans would've been shelved (?)

...."Daniel Laruso's gonna fight? Daniel Laruso's gonna fight!"

Why would someone from the CofE go to Qld to coach this team, that would make no sense at all

No announcement yet. Could be the current assistant, or someone from the CoE.

How old is Heal's daughter?

I blame WNBL for allowing such a young child to even take the crt to begin with, time they put an age limit on players regarding Bri g juniors. Nothing wrong with them training but it's a women's league not a play group.

Shane also needs to step away and let his daughter find her on way, if she's good enough it will come and she can get there on her own merit, much better for the kid all round.

But if Heals now out who's coaching them ?

Black played kid who could ball.
Joyce played a kid who sucked. Then used his network to continue to get him gigs.
Heal played a kid far too young and had blinders about her ability but who might still yet turn out to be a baller. Heal strong arms people into taking his daughter into camps based on his reputation.

All similar but different ;)

Depends how good she is. Brendan Joyce wasn't too popular for playing Daniel, but Alan Black playing Stephen was entirely understandable.

Surely if that were all there was to it they'd just offer a lower salary, rather than completely dropping him?

Heal out as coach. Apparently the money to play out the season was provided on the condition he not be involved.

Stars will play out the season.

No

His financial credibility has been in constant decline ever since he started dropping dimes as a youngster.

Thoughts go out to the players, especially the imports. While it doesn't pay as well as Europe, the WNBL is seen as a quality league with a good lifestyle and teams that reliably pay their players. So this SEQ drama is a bit of a blow to that image, especially so hot on the heels of Logan Thunder folding.

It's hard to believe it could all go financially so wrong like this with someone like Shane Heal so closely involved.

This made me laugh so hard at my work desk that the dude opposite me thought I was having a fit.

Thanks Luuuc, its been a long day.

Well ... less than one season.

I was disappointed about not being able to make it to the Waves-Stars clash this Saturday. Was shaping as a big one.

It's hard to believe it could all go financially so wrong like this with someone like Shane Heal so closely involved.

Before one season, actually.

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